Archive for January, 2005
Tribute to Scots’ own Florence Nightingale
Saturday, January 29th, 2005Culture: Black hole in the tsarist treasures
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005So what have the Scots ever really done for us?
Saturday, January 22nd, 2005Writing women back into history books
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005Scottish golfer was a 19th century Nostradamus
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005Trust on look-out for the Hibs connection with exhibition
Monday, January 17th, 2005THE Hibernian Historical Trust today appealed for “anything and everything” connected with the Easter Road club as they attempt to stage a “timeline” exhibition tracing the Leith outfit’s 130-year history.
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E-petition to promote Scotland’s Burns heritage
Saturday, January 15th, 2005Leith at Random
Friday, January 14th, 2005Unfortunately the book, Leith at Random, has been completely sold out. However the book may be re-issued later in the year according to the author David Valentine. Should this happen it will be re-advertised through this site. Can I suggest that if it is re-issued it will go very quickly. So as soon as it is re- issued please get your orders in as fast as possible to avoid disappointment.
John Arthur (Editor)
How an angry Scot became the world’s first terrorist
Friday, January 14th, 2005Let’s take a ride down memory line
Wednesday, January 5th, 2005FOR decades they were the most common mode of transport on the Capital’s streets. Affordable, comfortable and, unlike modern trains and buses, usually running on time, Edinburgh’s trams were an everyday sight.
From their early horse-drawn origins to the motorised carriages of their heyday in the 1950s, the trams carried hundreds of thousands of passengers from all across the Capital – taking them along city-centre routes such as Princes Street and The Mound, as well as to Leith and Portobello.
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